It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:11 pm
by joostone
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.
It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:12 pm
by McParadigm
theplatypus wrote:
stip wrote:Re: Superblood Wolfmoon
“Superblood Wolfmoon”
Again, the experimental nature here is in the songwriting and the structure. For a while, what I was calling “chorus,” Ed was calling “verse.” At some point, we realized it didn’t matter. Some of that led to these textural elements, like, OK, we don’t have an easily digestible structure to hang your ear on as a listener, so let’s play around with the sound a little bit more to push things from one section to the next, or build the tension up and release it. In a traditional songwriting structure, some of those things are more baked in. This is them teetering on the edge a little bit, and it can be a little unsettling for the listener, because you don’t know what’s coming next. The normal roadsigns for what a song is aren’t there.
I am proud of myself for picking up on that, given my lack of a musical background
Post-songwriting
For a moment I was like, “no plat, I think this kind of arranging work can be considered part of the songwriting process.”
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:12 pm
by oneway23
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.
It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
I got 404'ed.
Have they pulled the review?
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:13 pm
by bodysnatcher
oneway23 wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.
It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
I got 404'ed.
Have they pulled the review?
It’s lump. It’s made up.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:14 pm
by dad
I doubt it was even real.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:15 pm
by oneway23
bodysnatcher wrote:
oneway23 wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.
It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
I got 404'ed.
Have they pulled the review?
It’s lump. It’s made up.
What a little greasy scumbag jabroni
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:16 pm
by Jorge
Pitchfork wrote:McCready was never a particularly innovative player, but there are extended sections during some of Gigaton's more outwardly embarrassing songs where it sounds like he's given up completely, trading in boilerplate pentatonic shredding for half-hearted twiddly-diddly diarrhea.
Damn. Seems particularly harsh given Mike's history with Crohn's
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:16 pm
by RAG319
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.
It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
Ouch. Yeah, this part is also not great:
Gigaton? More like Giga-ton-of-shit. But, seriously. Eddie Vedder? More like Eddie-Vedder-Give-Scott-Stapp's-Voice-Back. Remember Creed?
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:18 pm
by dad
bodysnatcher wrote:
oneway23 wrote:
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.
It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
I got 404'ed.
Have they pulled the review?
It’s lump. It’s made up.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:24 pm
by scrub12
Honestly if I hadn’t clicked on the link I probably would have believed Pitchfork would write that.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:29 pm
by Strat
Every fucking song is catchy.
random parts of the day ill just realize im humming and singing one of the songs.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:38 pm
by Ms Harmless
I've been kind of embarrassed to sing PJ songs to myself for three albums now, whereas I used to constantly sing the old stuff, it was melodically amazing
the dark ages have truly ended, the tunes here are so singable
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:46 pm
by LuNY
Hey by the way universe..... the outro to Retrograde is the best sounding fucking thing of all time, life changer.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:49 pm
by liebzz
Next up: the lost album of material from the sessions they may or may not have abandoned. They will call the b-sides release Gigaturd featuring Can’t Deny Me.
As an aside. I am still very much loving this album.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:55 pm
by super nintendo chalmers
I think I...like this.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 7:59 pm
by MemoFromTurner
lecherouslittlestump wrote:Pitchfork review. 4.5, not great.
It's better than their last three efforts, but that's like saying Episode III was the best of the prequels. A turd is still a turd no matter how hard you clench your ass-cheeks.
I 100% fell for this although upon further review, I’d anticipate Pitchfork will elevate their searing derision above the scatalogical.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 8:11 pm
by Anders
scrub12 wrote:
That was interesting.
Re: The Official GIGATON Thread
Posted: Fri March 27, 2020 8:23 pm
by bodysnatcher
Just release an Of The Earth single so we can stop talking about it please
